About WYDE Newsroom

WYDE Newsroom is a free, independent news publication that reports on the impact economy for donors, nonprofit leaders, builders and creators who want to know where money, technology and attention are actually reaching people.

The impact economy is how giving, markets and technology are being reorganized around human outcomes. It runs from a $3 billion university gift to a token that funds a food bank, from an AI model that shortens a hospital wait to a creator who moves a million meals. WYDE Newsroom covers it as one beat, with the public records attached.

What WYDE Newsroom does

Daily reporting

WYDE Newsroom publishes original articles on major gifts, crypto and tokenized giving, AI and robotics, the creator economy, hunger and food policy, and fraud enforcement. Each article carries at least one finding computed from public records that the original announcement did not print. The archive holds 730 articles. Read the latest coverage.

Donor and organization profiles

Every person and organization a story is about gets a profile page with sourced facts and a list of the coverage that names them. The result is a growing reference for who gives, who receives and who leads. Browse people.

Gift rankings and the gifts ledger

Each reported gift is entered in a ledger with its donor, recipient, amount, date and source. The ledger feeds ranked lists, such as the largest gifts to US universities, so a reader can see where a new gift stands. See the rankings.

The nonprofit directory

The directory profiles 226 US nonprofits with revenue, expenses, assets and executive pay taken from their IRS Form 990 filings. It lets anyone check an organization's finances in one place. Open the directory.

WYDE Weekly

WYDE Weekly is a free email newsletter that collects the week's most important stories. It is the fastest way to keep up without reading every article. Subscribe.

Video

WYDE publishes explainers and conversations on YouTube, 119 of which are indexed here with their own pages. Watch.

What makes WYDE Newsroom different

One beat where others have three

The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Inside Philanthropy cover nonprofits and donors. CoinDesk covers crypto. TechCrunch and Wired cover technology. WYDE Newsroom covers the ground between them, where a token funds a cause or an AI system changes who gets care, and it reads 60 sources across all three worlds every day to do it.

The records come with the story

A gift announcement says how much. WYDE Newsroom adds what it means: the gift as a share of the recipient's annual revenue, where it ranks, and what the organization's filings show. Those figures come from IRS Form 990 data for 226 organizations and are linked so readers can check them.

Free to read

The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Inside Philanthropy are subscription publications. WYDE Newsroom has no paywall, no article limit and no account. Every article, profile and ranking is open.

Every quotation and figure is checked before publication

Before an article is published, software confirms that each quotation appears word for word in a linked source and that each figure appears in a source or is shown as arithmetic. An article that fails does not publish. Each article needs at least two sources from two different outlets.

Everything is connected

Articles link to the profiles of the people and organizations they name, profiles list every story that mentions them, and gifts roll up into rankings. A reader who arrives for one gift can follow the donor, the recipient and the comparable gifts without leaving the site.

Who reads WYDE Newsroom

• Development and communications staff at US nonprofits, universities and hospitals who track major gifts and peer organizations
• Donors, family offices and foundation program officers comparing gifts and grantees
• Founders and builders in crypto, fintech and impact technology who need the giving and policy context
• Creators and creator economy operators working on cause campaigns
• Food bank and hunger relief leaders following funding and food policy
• Journalists, researchers and students looking for sourced figures on nonprofit finance

The team behind WYDE Newsroom

Aaron Rafferty is the founder and editor. A former NIH-funded behavioral scientist, he is the Founding Director of WYDE and a co-founder of The Tech Buzz, an independent technology media platform. Find him on X and LinkedIn.

Joseph Cederwall is an editor. He is the Chief Editor of The Tech Buzz, founded The Dig in 2019 and has been co-editor of Scoop, the New Zealand news site. He trained in law and anthropology and previously practiced immigration and human rights law.

WYDE Newsroom began publishing in December 2025 as the editorial arm of WYDE, which was co-founded by Aaron Rafferty and Martin Simms to take causes public. It started with coverage of nonprofits, crypto philanthropy and food policy and widened to the whole impact economy as it became clear that no one outlet followed giving, crypto and technology together.

The newsroom is a small team: editors who set the coverage and standards, and an AI-assisted research desk that monitors sources, pulls records and drafts articles. Outside contributors write under their own names, and their pieces pass the same checks. See all writers and editors, or write for WYDE Newsroom.

• Aaron Rafferty
• Joseph Cederwall

How WYDE Newsroom works

Reporting. The newsroom checks 60 sources on a fixed schedule: a morning run, a run dedicated to gifts and food bank funding, and an afternoon run. A story must be less than 48 hours old, carry a hard number and rest on a primary source plus one independent outlet.

AI and verification. AI systems do the monitoring, records lookups and drafting. The editor sets what is covered and the rules it is written to. Software then checks every quotation and figure against the linked sources, and an article that fails is held rather than published.

Tips and contact. Send tips to editorial@wyde.org or through the Submit page. General questions go to hello@wyde.org. Messages reach the editor directly.

Corrections. Email corrections@wyde.org with the article link and the source that shows the error. Corrections are made in the article and follow the corrections policy. Standards are set out in the ethics policy.

Ownership and funding. WYDE Newsroom is published by WYDE, a Wyoming DUNA, and funded by the WYDE and $EAT ecosystem and reader support. Coverage of WYDE and $EAT is labeled as ecosystem news and is not mixed into reporting.

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